20 (5) Regent Street, Cambridge

History of 20 Regent Street

1851

Francis P Fenner, 40 tobacconist, b Cambridge  [This is the same as Francis P Fenner, the cricketer who founded Fenner’s].

Mary W, 34, b Chatteris

Emma L, 10, b Cambridge

Frances M, 6, b Cambridge

Ellen J, 3, b Cambridge

Eliza, sister, 41, milliner, b Cambridge

Sarah Clayter, 19, servant, b Fulbourn

Eliza Cornwell, 16, servant, b Cambridge

In 1861 the Fenner family were in Emmanuel Road.

Romilly’s editor adds a note for the diarist’s entry of 21st April 1854:

F P Fenner played his first match at Lords in 1832 and cricket for Cambridge town club for 23 years after that. he kept a tobacconist’s and grocery shop (with which he managed to incorporate a gymnasium) at 6 [sic] Market Hill until 1863.

See ‘Fenner’s Men Cambridgeshire Cricket 1822-48’ by Willie Sugg (2009)

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1861

John Bradford

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1871 ?

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1881 ?

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1891 (5)

Stained Glass Works

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1901 ?

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1911 ?

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1913

Leavis Pianoforte workshop

William H Constable, stained glass works

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1933

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1958

Murdoch’s, Regent Street — takeover by Millers, 18 October 1958
Millers may be the oldest music shop in Cambridge. They started trading as music and musical instrument dealers about 1886 when the late A.H. Miller joined the firm. Now they have taken over the business of Messrs Murdoch. In the 1920s Murdoch took over Leavis and Bedwells who had a retail shop on the corner of Glisson Road before moving to Regent Street. 58 10 18
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge REGENT STREET Scrapbook, entry 1958 10 18.

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1959

Cyril Ridgeon and Son, Regent Street — new showroom, 20 March 1959
Cyril Ridgeon and Son, builders’ merchants gave a luncheon to inaugurate their new Regent Street showroom. The shop was formerly occupied by Messrs Murdoch’s and the transformation from musical instruments to household equipment is striking. The lower ground floor is devoted to a display of bathroom suites, the ground floor to tiled fireplaces and the first to kitchen requirements. They were literally bulging at the seams at Hobson Street but the new store is comparable with something in London, guests were told. 59 03 20b
Credit: Mike Petty, Cambridge REGENT STREET Scrapbook, entry 1959 03 20.

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1964

Cyril Ridgeon and Sons, builder’s merchants